Hadith 99

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ja’far Bin Yahya Al Khuzair, from Al-Husayn Bin Al-Hassan, from Aasim Bin Yunus, from a man, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, he (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws said to a man: ‘With which thing are you treating your feverish ones? ’ He said, ‘May Allah-azwj Keep you-asws well! With these bitter medicines, with ‘Safaij’, and ‘Al Gafis’, and what resembles it’. He-asws said: ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj! The One-azwj Who is Able upon Curing with the bitter, He-azwj is Able upon Curing with the sweet! ’
Then he-asws said: ‘Whenever one of you has fever, let him take a clean container and make sugar to be in it, and halve it. Then he should recite upon it what is present from the Quran, then place it beneath the stars, and make iron to be in it. When it would be the morning, pour the water upon him and immerse his hand in it, then drink it. When it is the second night, increase sugar again, so it would be two (portions of) sugar, and halve it. When it would be the third night, increase it in sugar again, so it would be three (portions of) of sugar, and halve it’’. [117]
I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘I shall be coming with a lot of Ahadeeth in the chapters of medicine and the basil, and the fruits, and the seeds, if Allah-azwj the Exalted so Desires’.